Katherine Applegate

“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”

“Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?”

“Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill”

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”

“Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.”

“Anger only gets in the way.”

“You needed love to win at the game of music...I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played of perseverance, endurance beyond all suffering. Endurance in the face of hopelessness, hope when even hope was a betrayal...And yet, though I played so much sadness, the music at the same time denied despair. How could anyone despair while music was being played?”

“Death's gruesome face taunts:soulless eyes, crimson grimace.I really hate clowns.”

“Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?”

“Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco”